A blighted tornado-damaged building on Main Street in Springfield, Massachusetts will soon come under the wrecker’s ball.
Springfield city officials will formally announce Monday the demolition of a former auto parts store, that was the scene of a recent natural gas leak that forced a temporary closure of several streets and precautionary evacuations. The city seized the building for non-payment of taxes, but could not find an interested buyer for redevelopment. Mayor Domenic Sarno is pursuing a blight reduction strategy.
" We are going to continue to knockdown these eyesores," Sarno said last fall as he announced the demolition of a tornado-damaged house in the Maple High Six Corners neighborhood.
The Springfield City Council last year approved a $5 million bond bill to battle blight.
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